If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Art is for everybody.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

If you find yourself always worrying about what the people around you would say if you start being your true positive self, this would mean that you are yet to bond with your true purpose on earth.

Life gives you no guarantees. So, you love with all you have. And enjoy the time you’re given. If not, what’s it all for anyway?

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.